On Tuesday 13 November 2018 14:01:51 Reco wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:49:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 November 2018 11:23:13 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_ > > >good _password specifies "6 to 8 characters". Is that adequate > > > against currently available brute force? > > > > > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > > > > "John the ripper" can find a 6 char word in a couple seconds on a > > slow machine. > > Against sha512? Or against old Unix crypt? There's a difference, and > it's measured in orders of magnitude, not times. > > Reco
I don't recall as it been a decade or more since I saw that article -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
